How I Learnt to Code in One Year David Bauer. Journalist+
January 30, 2013When I started my quest, my goal was not to apply for an engineering job at Facebook. I wanted to broaden my horizon as a journalist, unlock new possibilities and simply learn something new. That’s why I will state confidently: It was worth the effort. Learning how to code is rewarding, I recommend doing it. At the same time, my answer to whether journalists should be able to code has become more nuanced. More on that later.
David Bauer is a swiss journalist who set his goal for 2012 to “Learn to code in a year” with CodeYear. It is debatable if and why a journalist needs to know coding at all but i think he makes some pretty good and reasonable points about that at the end.
I just started some JavaScript lessons in CodeAcademy some weeks ago and it is inspiring and motivating to see how someone was able to go from zero to build something like Instacurate in just about a year. Congratulations and thank’s for your insights David Bauer.